This is a beautiful matryoshka set. The name matryoshka is a diminutive of the personal name synonymous with mother. It is a wooden toy that usually depicts a female stylized figure. The toy opens in the middle and inside is another, smaller but similar in shape and color figure, which in turn also contains another smaller figure, and so on. Usually the matryoshka contains more than 6 elements. The largest matryoshka family consists of 72 figurines. Matryoshka dolls are considered typical Russian toys, but similar objects for play or decoration have been created in other countries (Japan for example). In Russia itself, a similar example is some of Faberge's eggs. In the 1890s, the famous Russian master carpenter Vasily Zvyozdochkin created the first matryoshka dolls based on sketches by the artist Sergei Malyutin. Malyutin painted them in national Russian costumes. The first matryoshka is a girl in a sundress, with a white apron, a colorful scarf on her head and a black rooster in her hands. The toy quickly gained popularity and subsequently became a symbol of Russian art. The variety of characters is huge.